澪

澪 (radical 85, 水+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水一月戈 (EMBI) or X水一月戈 (XEMBI), four-corner 3113₇, composition ⿰氵零)

• KangXi: page 653, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18398
• Dae Jaweon: page 1063, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1754, character 12
• Unihan data for U+6FAA

澪

1. The name of a body of water.
2. Alternative form of 泠 (líng).

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C06468

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. waterway, channel

• Go-on: りょう (ryō)^{←りやう (ryau, historical)}
• Kan-on: れい (rei)
• Tō-on: りん (rin)
• Kun: みお (mio, 澪)^{←みを (miwo, historical)}
• Nanori: み (mi); みほ (miho); みよ (miyo); り (ri); れ (re)

• 澪 (れい)標 (ひょう) (reihyō, “channel-mark”)
• 作澪 (さくれい) (sakurei)

⟨mi₁ wo⟩ → */mʲiwo/ → /miwo/ → /mio/

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE).[1]

Derived as a compound of 水 (mi, “water”, ancient combining form) +‎ 緒 (wo → o, “cord; something long and continuing”, likely cognate with 尾 (o, “tail”) from the sense of “something long and continuing from the end of the main body”).[2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) みお [mìó] (Heiban – [0])[3][4]
  • (Tokyo) み​お [míꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])[3][4]
  • IPA^(key): [mʲio̞]

• 水尾, 水脈

澪 (hiragana みお, rōmaji mio, historical hiragana みを)

1. a waterway, more specifically, a navigable channel
   • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 12, poem 3014), here

     神山 (みわやま)之 (の)山下 (やました)響 (とよみ)逝水 (ゆくみづ)之 (の)水 (み)尾 (をし)不絶 (たえず)者 (は)後 (のち)毛 (も)吾妻 (わがつま) [Man'yōgana]

     三 (み)輪 (わ)山 (やま)の山下 (やました)響 (とよ)み行 (ゆ)く水 (みづ)の水 (み)脈 (を)し絶 (た)えずは後 (のち)も我 (わ)が妻 (つま) [Modern spelling]

     Miwayama no yamashita toyomi yuku mizu no mio shi taezu wa nochi mo waga tsuma

     (please add an English translation of this example)

   • 905, Kokin Wakashū (book 17, poem 882)

     天 (あま)の河 (かは)雲 (くも)のみをにてはやければ光 (ひかり)とどめず月 (つき)ぞ流 (なが)るる

     ama no kawa kumo no mio ni te hayakereba hikari todomezu tsuki zo nagaruru

     (please add an English translation of this example)

2. a wake (path left behind by a passing ship on the water's surface)

   Synonym: 航跡 (kōseki)

澪 (hiragana みお, rōmaji Mio, historical hiragana みを)

1. a female given name

From Middle Chinese 澪 (MC leŋ).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • IPA^(key): [ɾe̞ː]

澪 (hiragana れい, rōmaji Rei)

1. a female given name